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E-commerce with mod_perl and Apache
rob_99 writes: "Cool new mod_perl article at perl.com documents building a large scale ecommerce solution w/ mod_perl & apache!" Pretty cool stuff - it's kind of funny to think how ephemeral their work turned out to be.
17 mod 5 = 2
17 mod_perl 5 = ?
EPHEMERAL
Adjective
1. Lasting for a markedly brief time: "There remain some truths too ephemeral to be captured in the cold pages of a court transcript" (Irving R. Kaufman)
2. Living or lasting only for a day, as certain plants or insects do.NOUNA markedly short-lived thing.
ETYMOLOGY From Greek ephemeros, ep-, epi-, epi-, + hemera, day
Just in case your vocabularly sometimes leaves you wondering (as mine does).
That which does not kill me only makes me whinier
Most Computer Science majors are lazy, therefore they think that perl is amazing. They hate prolog because it is radically different. They know C++ and Java, but for quick jobs, they go with perl.
Most Computer Science professors hate teaching perl (at least for intro stuff) because the syntax is crazy. They love prolog because the students hate it and most of them are crazy and love everything, except for teaching perl to newbies.
CS alumni program in whatever language their job requires!
I wrote a web app that handles around 75,000 sessions at around 500,000-700,000 views/hr. I didn't use Perl, C++, java, PHP, or python. Instead I used a combination of logo, butf*ck, and intercal.